my boss is technology retarded. i have to show him to convert things to pdf and stuff like. one time he was going to print a word document i worked on. he was really agitated, called me into the office, said it was all fouled up (used a different f-word there), no way he could send out a report looking like that, etc. so i turned off the track changes function and he printed the report. thats not really CYA but i felt like telling a stupid boss story.

j_d_mcnugent wrote:my boss is technology retarded. i have to show him to convert things to pdf and stuff like. one time he was going to print a word document i worked on. he was really agitated, called me into the office, said it was all fouled up (used a different f-word there), no way he could send out a report looking like that, etc. so i turned off the track changes function and he printed the report. thats not really CYA but i felt like telling a stupid boss story.

ahh I enjoyed that..good stuff.

yea boss's are stupid...you'd think they would hire people who are technically savy considering the whole universe now rotates about what kind of blackberry you have.

I have it too and I never use it; I guess I know why... I like to have all my non-work related browsing in firefox (like this here) and have my work related stuff (Altiris, intranet, web outlook, etc.) open in IE. I like to keep firefox small on the screen and IE in the background so if someone walks up, I can just click on the IE window and, boom, there's my Worker Report and it looks like I'm working hard!

Coppermine wrote:I have it too and I never use it; I guess I know why... I like to have all my non-work related browsing in firefox (like this here) and have my work related stuff (Altiris, intranet, web outlook, etc.) open in IE. I like to keep firefox small on the screen and IE in the background so if someone walks up, I can just click on the IE window and, boom, there's my Worker Report and it looks like I'm working hard!

Yea my boss told me the CIO thought I was surfing the internet too much cause he walks by 1 time a week and apparently see's me surfing which is retarded because all our app's take like 20 seconds to refresh and I can type a short post in 20 seconds.

Anyways I just turned my monitor away from his view. Its a little akward but no neck problems so far.

I have boss's...Of course smoking cigarettes isn't a problem cause you are outside and the boss can't tell you've just spent an hour a day smoking butts.

But if I surf for 20 seconds and he see's me obviously i'm not working hard even if I have the numbers that show I am.

Coppermine wrote:I have it too and I never use it; I guess I know why... I like to have all my non-work related browsing in firefox (like this here) and have my work related stuff (Altiris, intranet, web outlook, etc.) open in IE. I like to keep firefox small on the screen and IE in the background so if someone walks up, I can just click on the IE window and, boom, there's my Worker Report and it looks like I'm working hard!

Yea my boss told me the CIO thought I was surfing the internet too much cause he walks by 1 time a week and apparently see's me surfing which is retarded because all our app's take like 20 seconds to refresh and I can type a short post in 20 seconds.

Anyways I just turned my monitor away from his view. Its a little akward but no neck problems so far.

I have boss's...Of course smoking cigarettes isn't a problem cause you are outside and the boss can't tell you've just spent an hour a day smoking butts.

But if I surf for 20 seconds and he see's me obviously i'm not working hard even if I have the numbers that show I am.

My cube isn't in a high traffic area, and since I'm on a client location I don't have any bosses here to see what I'm doing; I've still made it a habit though that when I hear someone approaching, I just click the IE window and stare blankly until they walk by. I've conditioned myself to do this as naturally as breathing or taking a crap.

i have a similar technique. i also like to spread a few files out on my desk. occasionally i will look at those instead of computer screen. anyways, stare at something and look kind of angry (the george costanza method). i did that and my boss thought i actually was really busy and decided to finish one project himself.

a friend of mine also helped to work on some guidelines for slacking off. we called it operation shutdown.